Presley Quotes - page 2

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. (Gordon Waller)
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. View quote
John Shelton Reed
Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous. View quote
John Varvatos
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end. View quote
Jon Landau
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. View quote
Mac Davis
I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. View quote
Tiny Tim
I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. View quote
Tony Martin
I kind of liked the dare of it. Of course we weren't to know that within a month of my first album actually being issued Elvis Presley would die, and it would actually be a talking point. ... Let me put it this way - people don't forget you with that name. View quote
Elvis Costello
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. View quote
David Lynch
When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her 5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth. View quote
Priscilla Presley
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend. (Ville Valo)
People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing. View quote
Muhammad Ali
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. View quote
Johnny Cash
Don't let me get grand with you; I'm not someone who was, from day one, turning himself into a philosophical academic or anything; I was, from day one, someone who was determined to survive, and to pay attention to what was going on around him, period, and when Elvis Presley came along, my heart stood still, to borrow the Larry Hart lyric. The first note I heard from him, I said, "Well, this is it, this is a sufferer like me, this is something new, this is what I want, this is who I am, in a way,” and Elvis had that gift. That's why there are so many Elvis imitators. View quote
George W. S. Trow
I had the No. 2 position from 1998 until I left. I answered to no one but David Miscavige, who was chairman of the board. I was the personal counselor for Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. View quote
Mark Rathbun
I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about. View quote
John Travolta
We watch as Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson, as May Britt marries Sammy Davis Jr., as Madonna fornicates with Negroes, and on, and on and on. The entire effect of the American media is White genocide. View quote
David Lane (white nationalist)
I don't think MJ knew just how much his music shaped a whole generation of Arabs - just how many fans he had here and just how devoted they remained throughout his ordeals. We might not have heard of The Beatles or Elvis Presley, but we sure knew Michael Jackson. View quote
Michael Jackson
Little Richard - he was the first one that really got to me. Little Richard and, of course, Elvis Presley. I don't know if it was because of James Brown and Little Richard, I always preferred a high energy vocal, a hard full-force vocal. I liked Little Richard better than Elvis, and I liked James Brown better than the Beatles...but the Miracles were a heavy influence on me, too...[though] I always preferred the more energized vocals. View quote
Little Richard